2022: Let the Games Begin
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico’s Use of Bunker Oil Could Increase by 1,109 Percent Annually
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill — which would prioritize the use of contaminating carbon-based sources over clean alternatives — passes in Congress, the use of sulfur-heavy bunker oil, or combustóleo, in Mexico could increase by up to 1,109 percent per year, according to the 21st Century Power Partnership
Read moreMexico Asks USMCA Panel to Resolve Auto Dispute with US
XINHUA Mexico has requested a dispute resolution panel be set up under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to resolve differences with Washington in the interpretation of automotive content rules, the Mexican Economy Secretariat said Thursday, Jan. 6. “Mexico believes that a panel decision will provide confidence to the automotive industry for the benefit of the region’s competitiveness,” the secretariat said
Read moreAMLO’s Electricity Reform Could Cost 261 Billion Pesos
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform — which would prioritize the use of state-run carbon-based fuels over private, clean-sourced energy — passes, the federal budget could lose up to 261 billion pesos in 2022, according to the Center for Economic and Budgetary Research (CIEP), Mexico’s top independent thinktank. In
Read moreEnvoy Says Mexico and US Share Responsibility to Protect Migrants
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Tuesday, Dec. 14, that it is the responsibility of both Mexico and the United States to protest migrants by creating the conditions for economic and social development in Central America. Speaking during an interview with the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal and just 100 days into his
Read moreU.S. Lawmakers Attempt to Pause Mexico’s Electricity Reform
By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 3, a number of U.S. congressmen protested against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform in a letter to U.S. government officials, saying that the proposal would violate international treaties like the United States–Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and is discriminatory against both private investment initiatives and cleanly sourced energy. U.S. Republican members
Read moreAMLO Claims COP26 Reforestation Plan Was All His Idea
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently the idea of replanting trees to prevent deforestation is a uniquely Mexican concept, conceived by “Mr. Environment Responsibility” himself, aka, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). At least, that is what AMLO had the audacity to claim during his morning press rant on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Asked by one of the few real journalists
Read moreThe World According to Bartlett
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The question that everyone in Mexico should be asking themselves is whether ordinary citizens are more interested in subsidizing, with their own paychecks and a reduced quality in their public services, an ideologized concept of national sovereignty as purported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T), or paying less for
Read morePRI Honchos Warn Support of AMLO’s Bill Would End Party
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four former national heads of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) warned over the weekend that voting for leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform would constitute a step backwards for Mexico and the possible extinction of the party itself. “What should it matter if the PRI is in government or
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